Seeing a lot of FF14 posting in anticipation of the fanfest, specifically a lot of people who seem to genuinely believe 'Beastmaster Limited Job' stands even a McFucking Chance, and I have to wonder what it's like being in the head of someone who sees Blue Mage (who waited 2 years between major updates only to receive 20 new spells, of which 5 were basic 220 GCDs, 3 were 120s oGCD damage cooldowns, and one which was literally just 'Magic Hammer but for physical stats'), and thinking to yourself in full sincerity the thought that, 'Yeah, this is a dev team that doesn't regret this workload at all, surely they want to do it again, and this time they're gonna wrangle offensive pet AI back into the game while they do it'.
To hedge my bets here, if I eat my words in a few days I'll be pleasantly surprised, sure, whatever, but like. I don't think it's unrealistically pessimistic to say they seem to not enjoy using manpower on this kind of content anymore.